A Front
Webs-si.net - a supposed front for SOVA
I feel like I’m a sidekick in a Tom Clancy novel… The PM has “announced shocking news” claiming that…
…wait for it…
SOVA intelligence agency established and financed a company with its black-ops fund!!!!.
And I went like… Huh?…
A company, yes… Usually, in spy-speak, such a company is called “a front” and is used “to provide a plausible background story, occupation, and means of income” according to this Wiki entry.
It is only natural for a spy agency to have a front company (often more than one), is it not? But no, the unsuspecting public is again being fed half-baked information, aimed at tarnishing the reputation of everyone in Janša’s sights, most notably (still) the Prez, with the latest discovery being painted as just slightly better than Judas’ betrayal.
If this company really is a SOVA front (which is by no means an established fact, by the way), then I must admit that someone has a sense of humour, as the company’s core business is webhosting and domain registering 
Why get a court order to spy on someone’s server, when you can have your own server and attract dubious web-pages with dumping prices? 
BTW: For those of you who can read both Slovene and English: Please compare the Slovene version of PM’s site with the English one. You’ll notice that the latter completely fails to mention the SOVA brouhaha.
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
